Two-wheeled motor-driven roto-tiller



Aug. 4, 1936.

D. c. PEDERSEN TWO-WHEELED MOTOR DRIVEN ROTC-KILLER Filed April 5, i954 nvvnvron: D/lvzs Cums r/mv Psozesm BY: I

I Patented Aug. '4, 1936 TWO-WHEELED MOTOR-DRIVEN ROTO-TILLEB Dlnes Chrlstian Peder-sen, Holbek, Denmark Application April 3, 1934, Serial No. 718,'.""8

2 Claims.

The invention relates to a two-wheeled motordriven .oto-tillerhaving a simple non-reversible motor and being distinguished in, that it is provided with a combined driving, uncoupling and reversing device, so that in spite of its motor being non-reversible it is able to be driven backward as well as ahead or not at all driven by the working motor.

One construction of the invention is illustrated on the drawing.

Fig.1 shows, diagrammatically, a two-wheeled motor driven tilling machine in side elevation, although with the front (right) driving wheel omitted and with a plain indication of the members forming part of the driving mechanism, even if the same be not actually visible.

Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the machine, as far as the right hand part of the figure is concerned mainly along the line IIII in Fig. l, and as far as the left part of the figure is concerned mainly along the line II--II in Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a detail view from the right side of a certain shifting lever and associated parts used in this invention.

Fig. 4 is a similar view'but taken from the left side.

I are the driving wheels which are secured to an axle 2 common to both wheels. The said axle supports the frame 3 of the machine, which mainly consists of a narrow box with vertical side walls 3a and 3b (Fig. 2) forming, at the-front, a

platform 4 adapted to support the non-reversible motor 5, the shaft 6 of which extends horizontally towards the rear between the side walls of the machine frame. The rear end of the frame extends obliquely rearward and downward in the shape of a hollow stiff arm 1, which supports bearings for the shaft 8 of the tiller drum and encloses the transmission members (chain 9 or' the like) serving to drive the said shaft. I is the steering lever, which is attached to-the top of the machine frame, and II is a pulling rod for engaging and disengaging the coupling of the motor by a manipulation from the drivers position.

The motor shaft 6 supports, at its rear end, a bevel pinion I2 engaging a bevel gear-wheel I3 on a shaft I l, the main shaft of the machine, journaled in the walls of the machine frame and supporting a pinion and a sprocket wheel I5, which by means of the transmission members (chain 9 or the like) mentioned before drives the tiller drum. The pinion II engages a 'gear wheel I8 which runs freely on a shaft I9 supportedin the machine frame. The shaft I9 also forms a pivot for a shifting lever 2|! the forward end of which is formed as a toothed sector 22 concentric with the shaft or pivot I9. This sector meshes with a toothed sector or gear segment 23 .which is fixed on a shaft 31 journalled in the frame and which, by means of an arm 24 secured to said shaft 31 and a shifting rod 25 connected to the free end of said arm, can be swung in one and the other direction about the axis of the shaft 31 thus simultaneously causing swinging movement in a corresponding direction of the shifting lever 20 about its pivot iii. A shaft 26 is journalled in. the'shifting lever 20 on which is fixed a gear wheel 21 engaging the gear wheel I8. On the shaft 26 is also fixed a shifting pinion 28 located between an internal gear 29 and an external gear 30 and the pinion 28 is caused to mesh with one of the two gears 29 and 30 by swinging movement of the shifting lever 20. Both gears 29 and 30 are firmly fixed on the wheel axle 2 which with the wheels I may thus be rotated in one direction or the other when the main shaft is driven by the motor, the direction of movement being governed by the meshing of the pinion 28 with a respective gear 29 or 30. The pinion 28 may be positioned out of mesh with both gears 29 and thus disconnecting the axle from the motor and bringing the machine to rest. Obviously, change in the size of the pinion 28 will correspondingly change the ratio of the driving gearing for the wheels I. Many of the details are more clearly shown in Figs. 2, 3 and 4 and from these figures it will be seen that machine frame 3 has two side walls 3a and 3b and on the outside of each of them and firmly connected thereto a heavy casing 330. and 331), respectively, supported on the wheel axle 2 by bearings-3t. The casing encloses the two coaxially arranged gears 29 and 30 and also the shifting pinion 28 disposed in the space between said gears. The casing 33b encloses the pinion I I (to be seen only in Fig. 1) and the gear-wheels I8 and 21. The shifting lever 20 (Fig. 1) consists of two parallel arms 20a and'20b Figs. 2, 3 and 4 firmly interconnected by means of a cross-piece 20c and fitted each with alateral pin shown re-' spectively at Illa and Nb, said pins or stub shafts being aligned to form the pivot of the shifting lever. The pin or stub shaft Ilia is journaled in a reinforcement 36 of the side wall 3a. The pin I 9b, also serves as a shaft for the gear wheel I8, and is journaled in a reinforcement of the wall of thecasing 33b. The shaft 26, having fixed on one of its ends the gear wheel 2'! and on itsother end the shifting pinion 28, is journaled in both of the arms 29:: and 20b (and the cross-piece 20c) I pinion 28 from engagement with one of the gears 29 and 30 to engagement with the other one of these gears.

As will be understood the transmission of force from the motor 5 to the driving wheels I is from the motor shaft 6, bevel pinion i2, bevel gearwheel l3, shaft ll, pinion l1, gear-wheel I 8, gearwheel 21, shaft 26 and shifting pinion 28 to either the one or the other one of the two gears 29 and 30. These gears are firmly fixed on the axle 2, on which are 'alsoofirmly fixed the driving wheels I. When the machine is to be moved ahead over the ground, the driving force will be transmitted through the gear' 29, whereas the driving force will be transmitted through the gear 30 when the machine has to be moved backward, the direction of revolution of the non-reversible motor being determined to suit this demand 1. e., in the case illustrated the direction of revolution should be i as indicated by the arrow 38 in Fig. 1.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is: a

1. In a two-wheeled roto-tiller driven by a nonreversible motor and having its main shaft mounted transversely in the machine frame, a pinion on said main shaft, a pinion rotatably supported by the machine frame and engaged by said first named pinion, a shifting lever swingably mounted on the machine frame about the axis of gagement with one or the other of said rims or free of them both. I

2. In a two-wheeled roto-tiller driven by a non-reversible motor and having its main shaft mounted transversely in the machine frame, a pinion on said main shaft, a pinion rotatably supported by the machine frame and engaged by said first named pinion, a shifting lever swingably mounted on the machine frame about the axis of said second named pinion, two toothed rims facing each other and being co-axially arranged relatively to the wheels of the roto-tiller and secured to their axle, a shaft journale'd in the said shifting lever, two pinions secured to said shaft, one of i said pinions being engaged by the aforesaid sec- 2 0nd named pinion and the other one being disposed in the space between said two toothed rims, and means for swinging said shifting lever to bring the last named pinion into engagement with one or the other of said rims or free of them both, said means comprising a toothed sector at the foremost end of the shifting lever, a toothed sector in engagement therewith, an arm firmly connected to said last named sector and a shifting rod connected with said arm.

DINES PEDERSEN. 

